Dog parents get the laugh of a lifetime when local dingdong ditchers bite off more than they can chew and meet their dog: ‘It was so freaking funny!’

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Apr 17, 2025 6:00 AM EDT

There are many perks that come with being a dog parent. For one, you now have a best friend for the rest of their life. A dog's love and loyalty is unwavering and you will never experience anything like it. Congrats! Plus, they are empathetic and playful, so they tend to make great emotional support animals. Another perk, especially if you have a big dog, you get "scary dog privileges." This means, even if your dog is the sweetest, derpiest, and harmless creature in the entire universe, people will still initially be wary. I mean, even though your dog would rather kiss someone to oblivion, they still have the power to rip them to shreds. So, it's fair, but one "he's friendly!" from you can dismantle that judgement. 

 

But sometimes you might not want to dismantle that judgement so quickly… 

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  • For instance, when the local teens discover the ancient annoying game of “dingdong ditch” and are now buzzing your doorbell all the time and running away. It might just so happen that your dog is triggered by the doorbell and goes charging for it and after anyone behind the button. And sense your dog is big, that's scary to face—they don't know he's friendly yet! So, now they never bother your door again. What a fun way to accidentally scare off some annoying intruders! Dogs are the best. 

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  • "Dingdong ditch? Meet my dog!"

    My partner and I live in the world's smallest cul-de-sac, probably in the world. You can walk the entire community in probably 5. minutes. You'd think this would foster a close neighborhood, but everyone mostly keeps to themselves. The only
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  • reason I mention this is to say we have no idea who would do this lol We rent, and since we've been in this neighborhood for four-ish years without incident, we never got around to getting a ring camera or anything like that (which will be changing after this). We just have an
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  • old fashioned doorbell and a kind of crappy latch on the front door. A few weeks ago, we got ding dong ditched. It's never happened before and was kind of funny so we just went along with our day and nothing else happened for a few more weeks. This
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  • probably encouraged them to do it again. But this time, they decided to pound the front door instead of ringing the doorbell. I have a habit of leaving the front door unlocked when I'm waiting on a delivery. This was one of those days.
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  • It happened really fast but this is what I put together: The first knock did nothing but alert our dog, a 55lb mixed breed, that someone was at the door. Naturally she ran downstairs to bark at the door.
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  • The second knock must've pushed the door off the latch but not all the way (remember I said it was crappy). The third knock was their final mistake.
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  • We could only hear it from upstairs. The bang of the door smacking against the wall. The scrambling footsteps. And the dog chasing them out the door.
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  • We ran downstairs. Luckily, our dog isn't a bolter. She ran the intruders off the property then stood guard at the opened front door as it was still swinging from its hard impact against the wall. In our lawn was an abandoned but full bag of puffy Cheetos and on the sidewalk in front of our house was an Arizona tea
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  • that was either dropped or thrown, left abandoned to spill its mostly full contents into the gutter. It was obvious they were abandoned in the great escape, and it was so freaking funny. It was sitcom level stuff. I decided to leave it there in case they decided to come back for them.
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  • They were both gone by the next morning. The best part is I cannot tell if it was a bunch of stupid kids or a bunch of stupid young adults. But I don't think they'll be coming back.
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  • Martin_Z_Martian Good dog. Years ago I had a group of 12 year olds pull this. Well, I had 3 dogs at the time with a doggie door. My guard dog of the group trapped one of them in a corner of my house and wouldn't let him pass. Matched that kid step for step from about 6 feet away.
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  • Not barking, not growling, just staring at him. The other 2 geniuses ran into my neighbor's yard. He had 2 dogs. They promptly got treed by his dogs. I will say, next day the parents had them bring me flowers. and apologize.
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  • No_Pop_2142 My old Doberman did this. Kids hit the doorbell at 3am and when I went to go look the dog slipped out and ran after them. I've never seen kids run so fast and dive over their fences like that. Never saw them again.
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  • Motheroftheworldll A good dog is the best for discouraging such activity.
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  • OrigStuffOfInter... Not sure I'd call that one revenge, more like instant karma. Someone was probably in need of a fresh pair of underpants after that.
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